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How to solder 101

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  • ChrisJ
    ChrisJ Member Posts: 15,716
    edited December 2021
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    Sigh looks like I'm adding a public drinking fountain to the front yard......
    Single pipe quasi-vapor system. Typical operating pressure 0.14 - 0.43 oz. EcoSteam ES-20 Advanced Control for Residential Steam boilers. Rectorseal Steamaster water treatment
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  • Steamhead
    Steamhead Member Posts: 16,861
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    ChrisJ said:

    Sigh looks like I'm adding a pubic drinking fountain to the front yard......

    You might want to check your spelling....... >:)
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  • ChrisJ
    ChrisJ Member Posts: 15,716
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    Steamhead said:
    Sigh looks like I'm adding a pubic drinking fountain to the front yard......
    You might want to check your spelling....... >:)
    Ugh.

    I'm sorry it's been a rough week.
    We've all been sick, bleh.


    Single pipe quasi-vapor system. Typical operating pressure 0.14 - 0.43 oz. EcoSteam ES-20 Advanced Control for Residential Steam boilers. Rectorseal Steamaster water treatment
  • mattmia2
    mattmia2 Member Posts: 9,680
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    Any good ways to get enough solder out of a female fitting to make it slip over the pie when remaking a joint? I've tried heating it and tapping on something which sort of works but usually ends up with a bead at the edge that you have to file off.
  • Larry Weingarten
    Larry Weingarten Member Posts: 3,306
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    Hi, For bigger fittings, I use a dry rag while the solder is still molten. I’m not good enough to use a bare finger :p

    Yours, Larry
  • EBEBRATT-Ed
    EBEBRATT-Ed Member Posts: 15,550
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    Dry rag as @Larry Weingarten said. !/2" is tough though.
    Larry Weingarten
  • GW
    GW Member Posts: 4,693
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    Yuk, 1/2”. Are you trying to clean it to the point where it will slip on cold? If you insist, that’s gonna be a pain. I would just hold it with channel locks, heat it, and waste a flux brush (they are cheap), clean it up. But in reality I would not even do that. Just heat it, stick it on and solder it

    but I find it noteworthy how much time some people put into cleaning fittings and pipe. If you have lotta time, then I guess that’s all good 
    Gary Wilson
    Wilson Services, Inc
    Northampton, MA
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  • mattmia2
    mattmia2 Member Posts: 9,680
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    the time it takes me to fix that one that didn't wet that is in some weird corner where I preassembled some stuff i couldn't reach because i didn't clean it is saved in time cleaning it. i used a brush in my drill press for the outside and a brush in a driver for the inside. i used to just kinda clean and only flux one surface figuring it would flow but after a few bad joints I found tearing things apart, i clean and flux everything now.
    rick in AlaskaGW
  • ChrisJ
    ChrisJ Member Posts: 15,716
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    I'm not sure if it was mentioned but after cleaning the copper with your choice of sand paper, Emory' scotch Brite etc, it's best to give it a good wipe with a clean rag to get the powder off of it.


    Single pipe quasi-vapor system. Typical operating pressure 0.14 - 0.43 oz. EcoSteam ES-20 Advanced Control for Residential Steam boilers. Rectorseal Steamaster water treatment
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